SoftLayer™ Joins Microsoft Hosting BizSpark™ Program
Offers Valuable Cost Savings and Support for Qualified Startup Companies
May 18, 2009, Dallas, TX – SoftLayer™ Technologies has been approved as a partner in the Microsoft® Hosting BizSpark™ Program. As a BizSpark partner, SoftLayer can now provide qualifying startup companies with value pricing on Microsoft development software and tools.
BizSpark is a global program designed to equip emerging, high-potential startups with entrepreneurial and technological resources that can accelerate their early growth and success. Qualified startups receive a wide range of benefits including:
- Fast and easy access to full-featured Microsoft development tools, platform technologies, and server product production licenses to help develop and bring innovative solutions to market.
- Access to Microsoft Network Partners around the world, including incubators, investors, advisors, and government agencies focused on software-fueled innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Global visibility to potential investors, clients, peers, and partners.
“We are excited to be involved in the BizSpark program. It extends our startup customers important advantages, dynamic platforms, and strong connections at a critical point in their business development,” said George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer for SoftLayer. “We have long partnered with Microsoft to offer the latest software to our customers. And now BizSpark will let us do even more to foster the companies that will be tomorrow’s solutions leaders.”
The requirements for startups to participate in the BizSpark program are relatively minimal. Chief among them, eligible organizations must be privately held companies that are developing a software-based product or service. For more information and a complete list of eligibility qualifications, visit http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark. |
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About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.
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